Letters: Illinois attorney general is wrong to support the settlement with the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma

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Letters: Illinois attorney general is wrong to support the settlement with the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma

As the father of an 18-year-old girl who died from a single OxyContin pill in 2006 and as a creditor in the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy proceeding, I must voice my strong disappointment in Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s apparent decision to support the recent $7.4 billion settlement in principle with the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma. My daughter and countless other Illinois citizens were blindsided by this company’s aggressive and dece…